1 00:01:06,02 --> 00:01:08,82 Welcome to G B two B. News I'm a D.N.C. G.V. T.V. 2 00:01:08,83 --> 00:01:11,63 News is brought to you by television you can be. 3 00:01:15,95 --> 00:01:17,31 Broadcast on T.V. 4 00:01:17,32 --> 00:01:21,30 Channel eleven about accounting Monday through Friday at three pm and also at seven 5 00:01:21,31 --> 00:01:25,57 thirty pm and. Fifteen Saturday at five P.M. 6 00:01:26,01 --> 00:01:32,01 Will also be walking. In a few weeks you can get 7 00:01:32,02 --> 00:01:36,99 a free podcast on Internet through i Tunes or other podcast sites if you have 8 00:01:36,100 --> 00:01:40,77 newsworthy items please e-mail them to us. T.V. 9 00:01:40,78 --> 00:01:45,99 Dot org. In today's local news some neighbors in the. 10 00:01:48,22 --> 00:01:52,71 Area were disturbed Thursday to see two dead coyotes hanging over the center's 11 00:01:52,72 --> 00:01:59,68 wooden sign by the road ahead of. Those sledgehammers some other half and the 12 00:01:59,69 --> 00:02:02,91 other was half skint. So that. She had 13 00:02:02,92 --> 00:02:09,62 a Maziar. Head of the woman said Mr semester long academic program located at this 14 00:02:09,63 --> 00:02:14,92 year Friends center visitors said she hadn't seen the carcasses or self because the 15 00:02:14,93 --> 00:02:18,41 maintenance director of the school or moved them and put them out towards the end 16 00:02:18,42 --> 00:02:23,65 of the property for vultures it is pretty disturbing I hope it was the work of 17 00:02:23,66 --> 00:02:28,42 someone drunk or out of their mind I find it hard to understand why anybody would 18 00:02:28,46 --> 00:02:33,11 do it we've never had problems with coyotes in the area we've never had anything 19 00:02:33,12 --> 00:02:37,89 like this happen before. The Nevada County sheriff's office made 20 00:02:37,90 --> 00:02:42,91 a log entry of the event xor patrol for the area at night and Sergeant Daniel 21 00:02:42,92 --> 00:02:48,81 Saunders of the Nevada County Sheriff's Office I encourage the neighbors especially 22 00:02:48,82 --> 00:02:50,71 those who go to work early to give us 23 00:02:50,72 --> 00:02:55,91 a call if they see anything unusual. At this point the police have stalled the 24 00:02:55,92 --> 00:03:01,79 investigation because there are no leads. Right now we are not considering this 25 00:03:01,83 --> 00:03:06,28 a hate crime as there is nothing to support it now whether graffiti or anything 26 00:03:06,29 --> 00:03:12,11 that would lead us to believe that. I don't know why anyone would target to school 27 00:03:12,67 --> 00:03:17,70 Saunders added. He's never encountered a similar incident before 28 00:03:17,95 --> 00:03:22,84 a spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Game agreed we haven't had 29 00:03:22,85 --> 00:03:25,39 incidents where animals have been left displayed in 30 00:03:25,40 --> 00:03:29,71 a grisly manner in my recent history said spokesman Harry Moore's. 31 00:03:32,59 --> 00:03:39,46 Too bad some people just. Another story 32 00:03:39,47 --> 00:03:43,57 repeat go lives among the boulder fields not ice year where the growing season is 33 00:03:43,58 --> 00:03:48,54 too short and too cold for trees to survive also known as Rock rabbit the demented 34 00:03:48,59 --> 00:03:54,21 relative of rabbits in Harrods as well adapted to the Alpine life it has short heat 35 00:03:54,22 --> 00:04:00,59 conserving ears it round heat conserving body and sick keep conserving fur. As 36 00:04:00,60 --> 00:04:06,15 a bunny. Critter is becoming endangered. I never even heard of them before 37 00:04:06,75 --> 00:04:11,64 especially and I've not been habitat. Of the Great Basin region between the Sierra 38 00:04:11,65 --> 00:04:17,05 Nevada and the Rockies as high altitude climates grow warmer. Wildlife biologist 39 00:04:17,06 --> 00:04:20,22 Eric beaver of the University of Colorado has counted take 40 00:04:20,23 --> 00:04:24,09 a population for years I joined him recently on the census of 41 00:04:24,10 --> 00:04:27,38 a mountain in south central Nevada where peak is had been 42 00:04:27,39 --> 00:04:33,50 a non But now they are gone this mountain's population has gone extinct Beaver 43 00:04:33,51 --> 00:04:38,46 concluded but even as he remains objective about his study Beaver finds 44 00:04:38,47 --> 00:04:45,35 a progressive out of Great Basin pike or peak population unsettling to pick 45 00:04:45,36 --> 00:04:49,57 his troubles stem from its unusual lack of mechanisms to cool its body in the way 46 00:04:49,58 --> 00:04:54,28 the heat the warm weather affects animals ability to digest food chemistry slows 47 00:04:54,29 --> 00:05:00,27 down its cold we were Frederick food to slow the growth of bacteria he pushes bio 48 00:05:00,28 --> 00:05:05,08 chemistry faster to the point most of the work of digesting food is done by water 49 00:05:05,09 --> 00:05:06,61 water molecules work like 50 00:05:06,62 --> 00:05:12,61 a crowbar slipping between two boards to pry them apart insinuating themselves 51 00:05:12,62 --> 00:05:19,05 between the atoms of the food partly molecules and breaking the molecules apart if 52 00:05:19,06 --> 00:05:23,27 we have to depend on water alone though it would take months even years to digest 53 00:05:23,28 --> 00:05:25,31 a meal within our stomachs are 54 00:05:25,32 --> 00:05:30,59 a tiny machines enzymes that grab food molecules bend them and open gaps to ease 55 00:05:30,60 --> 00:05:35,13 water entry and zombies make bio chemical reactions go millions and billions even 56 00:05:35,14 --> 00:05:39,07 trillions of times faster we can eat our lunch yet hunger for us just 57 00:05:39,08 --> 00:05:43,70 a few hours later besides digesting food enzymes build up and break down the 58 00:05:43,71 --> 00:05:48,58 molecules of which our bodies are made these molecules are different shapes 59 00:05:48,90 --> 00:05:53,91 determined by all their atoms link up. And enzyme must have 60 00:05:53,92 --> 00:05:59,67 a grappling region or just the right shape to latch onto its target molecule. Makes 61 00:05:59,68 --> 00:06:04,28 molecules vibrate die. They are the faster they vibrate and the harder they hammer 62 00:06:04,29 --> 00:06:10,51 each other then they collide egg white offers an example of how he works on enzymes 63 00:06:11,22 --> 00:06:15,93 egg white is made of long stringy protein molecules build up like balls of beyond 64 00:06:15,94 --> 00:06:21,68 dissolved in water. These yard balls of protein all together because of protein 65 00:06:21,69 --> 00:06:28,33 strings are electromagnetically sticky. When we heat the protein 66 00:06:28,34 --> 00:06:34,87 molecules vibrate and collide hard enough to make the yarn unravel the string 67 00:06:34,88 --> 00:06:40,25 molecules still sticky bind to each other. But we have. 68 00:06:42,17 --> 00:06:45,28 What had been a solution in tiny Spears becomes 69 00:06:45,29 --> 00:06:47,96 a single large mass of solid protein he are boiled 70 00:06:47,97 --> 00:06:53,90 a hard boiled egg will never have to kick his proteins or bent out of shape 71 00:06:53,91 --> 00:06:58,59 scientists call it denatured he similarly Benson's imes out of shape in like 72 00:06:58,60 --> 00:07:03,45 a hard boiled egg denatured enzymes cannot support life heat operates on the 73 00:07:03,46 --> 00:07:08,59 enzymes of living beings to all organisms have an upper temperature limit beyond 74 00:07:09,18 --> 00:07:13,14 which there in time stopped working as warmer temperatures affect plants and 75 00:07:13,15 --> 00:07:17,83 animals around the world creatures that can no longer tolerate the heat are 76 00:07:17,84 --> 00:07:23,58 shifting their ranges and are moving north and. So maybe all the pickers are going 77 00:07:23,59 --> 00:07:28,69 to Canada unable to swell like a primate unable to pant like 78 00:07:28,70 --> 00:07:31,30 a dog unable to draw cool an ear into his throat like 79 00:07:31,31 --> 00:07:36,17 a bird to peek at his joint upward migration but pinkos already living in the upper 80 00:07:36,18 --> 00:07:40,78 most ridges of their mom's cannot move higher in the High Sierra and the Rockies 81 00:07:40,79 --> 00:07:47,79 because can move down one peak to migrate up another. Point between peaks the 82 00:07:47,80 --> 00:07:52,60 animals expose themselves to hawks and other predators the migration is dangerous 83 00:07:52,84 --> 00:07:57,62 but not impossible. But between the Sierras and the Rockies the mountains of the 84 00:07:57,63 --> 00:08:03,36 Great Basin are sky island surrounded by an ocean of. Uncrossable desert peak is in 85 00:08:03,37 --> 00:08:10,16 the High Sierra can continue to survive the Great Basin pikas are trapped. Safe 86 00:08:10,17 --> 00:08:17,04 story. Hope they survive. In our entertainment the band mollies 87 00:08:17,05 --> 00:08:21,32 Revenge of the Mars Celtic festival on Friday with traditional Celtic gifts and 88 00:08:21,33 --> 00:08:24,43 realize the three day festival of blues you can culture at the Nevada County 89 00:08:24,44 --> 00:08:28,57 Fairgrounds features seven stages of music and storytelling plus crafts booting 90 00:08:28,63 --> 00:08:33,80 games are used dancing demonstrations nine hundred seventy reasons Scottish speech 91 00:08:33,81 --> 00:08:38,60 will take place Saturday and Sunday festival goers the water between the main stage 92 00:08:38,61 --> 00:08:44,71 and the ferry where it can get lost in the great visit with pixies or see 93 00:08:44,72 --> 00:08:51,51 a replica. So check it out. South Lake Tahoe 94 00:08:51,52 --> 00:08:54,68 satellite imagery and computer forecast models are now indicating 95 00:08:54,69 --> 00:08:58,81 a fairly strong but fast moving cold front will push across Lake Tahoe area this 96 00:08:58,85 --> 00:09:03,93 afternoon and evening south to southwest winds are expected to increase throughout 97 00:09:03,94 --> 00:09:07,91 the day to twenty to thirty mile per hour and gusts of forty five miles per hour 98 00:09:07,92 --> 00:09:12,57 and when prone areas by afternoon southwest winds up to eighty miles per hour 99 00:09:12,58 --> 00:09:17,01 forecast long as they are crest today and tonight daytime temperatures will cool 100 00:09:17,02 --> 00:09:20,97 into the mid and upper fifty's this afternoon the head of the approaching cold 101 00:09:20,98 --> 00:09:25,44 front was further coolants into the upper forty's and lower fifty's on Saturday 102 00:09:25,45 --> 00:09:31,72 with northerly winds ten to twenty mph and post air mass look for rain and snow 103 00:09:31,76 --> 00:09:37,35 great is now great to develop along to see this afternoon becoming most intense is 104 00:09:37,36 --> 00:09:37,72 even 105 00:09:37,73 --> 00:09:43,14 a cold front snow levels are expected to start at around seven thousand feet. This 106 00:09:43,15 --> 00:09:48,23 afternoon and lower levels of around six thousand feet by evening snow is forecast 107 00:09:48,24 --> 00:09:53,03 to taper off through flurries after midnight with clearings and Saturday models are 108 00:09:53,04 --> 00:09:55,72 indicating around point fifteen to precipitate 109 00:09:56,19 --> 00:10:00,44 a whole basin up to point forty inch in the high elevation by early Saturday 110 00:10:00,45 --> 00:10:06,08 morning. Would translate around and inch of snow most of the grassy areas like 111 00:10:06,74 --> 00:10:11,56 level and two to four inches of mountain passes or above seven thousand feet much 112 00:10:11,57 --> 00:10:14,69 of this knowledge should melt as it hits the relatively warm pavement our 113 00:10:14,70 --> 00:10:19,76 visibility could be restricted during the more intense snow fall Friday evening if 114 00:10:19,77 --> 00:10:23,96 you're planning to travel Friday evenings chipped away just road conditions before 115 00:10:23,97 --> 00:10:29,57 departing. Since this is Saturday and I guess we should have done that temperatures 116 00:10:29,58 --> 00:10:33,97 are forecast to warm back into mid sixty's around late Sunday afternoon late 117 00:10:34,23 --> 00:10:40,47 southwest winds will pick up fifteen to twenty seems like. This weather 118 00:10:41,35 --> 00:10:46,23 is one of our longer reports about weather so that's enough weather for now look 119 00:10:46,24 --> 00:10:51,31 it's know it's coldest wet what else you want to know. Beyond Monday's the jet 120 00:10:51,32 --> 00:10:55,04 stream and storm track stays around Pacific Northwest bringing in heavy rain to 121 00:10:55,05 --> 00:10:59,67 Washington but dry and mild conditions across the area for the remainder of the 122 00:10:59,68 --> 00:11:03,32 week some of the longer range computer models are suggestion another low price your 123 00:11:03,33 --> 00:11:05,47 trouble developing over the western U.S. 124 00:11:05,48 --> 00:11:11,22 Towards next week which would not be out of character of our current unsettling 125 00:11:11,30 --> 00:11:15,61 fall weather pattern so much for the last of our summer. 126 00:11:29,41 --> 00:11:32,76 That's right stand for the police blotter and the pictures in the blog are not from 127 00:11:32,80 --> 00:11:39,27 these actual events but used for visual aid only. Grass Valley Police Department on 128 00:11:39,32 --> 00:11:42,16 Thursday at eight forty four am 129 00:11:42,35 --> 00:11:46,58 a caller from Maine hard drive in Cape Hayes street put it woman in 130 00:11:46,59 --> 00:11:52,07 a blue Ford Explorer was naked in Chicken her breasts at the color police contacted 131 00:11:52,08 --> 00:11:53,33 an eighteen year old woman and 132 00:11:53,34 --> 00:11:58,25 a nineteen year old man and told them to leave the area. Ten fifty one A.M. 133 00:11:58,63 --> 00:11:59,42 Police contacted 134 00:11:59,43 --> 00:12:02,03 a man accused of shoplifting from the. Store and seven enter block 135 00:12:02,04 --> 00:12:06,72 a certain way and started them on suspicion of with the police also give the man 136 00:12:06,73 --> 00:12:13,07 a no spying him from the start to return to the store. What happened. 137 00:12:14,55 --> 00:12:15,56 Three thirty six P.M. 138 00:12:15,57 --> 00:12:16,43 a Call from one 139 00:12:16,44 --> 00:12:20,29 a block of Katherine lane reported cash was taken from the patient police took 140 00:12:20,30 --> 00:12:24,57 a report. By twenty nine P.M. 141 00:12:24,58 --> 00:12:28,68 a Call from six hundred block of South Auburn reported in as an accident between 142 00:12:28,69 --> 00:12:33,92 a convertible and a pickup truck. It's 143 00:12:33,93 --> 00:12:38,92 a story of having from Wendy's circle reported someone called him and told him he 144 00:12:38,93 --> 00:12:43,03 won one million dollars at seven fifty P.M. 145 00:12:43,04 --> 00:12:43,78 A Call reported 146 00:12:43,79 --> 00:12:47,89 a woman with an infant stayed at the shelter in Grass Valley was refusing 147 00:12:47,90 --> 00:12:50,09 assistance the caller said the infant is 148 00:12:50,10 --> 00:12:55,66 a boy but his name Stella and is dressed in a girl's clothes police contacted 149 00:12:55,67 --> 00:12:59,22 a caller who said the woman was passing through town in her whereabouts were 150 00:12:59,26 --> 00:13:02,95 unknown. At eight thirty two P.M. 151 00:13:02,96 --> 00:13:06,100 A man from a business was three hundred Block reporting the man in 152 00:13:07,01 --> 00:13:10,29 a Honda trying to take some items police arrested 153 00:13:10,30 --> 00:13:14,59 a twenty three year old man off suspicion of commercial burglary police said his 154 00:13:14,60 --> 00:13:18,35 car towed. I don't live in a four P.M. 155 00:13:18,36 --> 00:13:20,42 Police stopped a vehicle on Mill Street arrested 156 00:13:20,43 --> 00:13:27,03 a forty six year old man on suspicion of drunk driving. And on Friday at twelve 157 00:13:27,04 --> 00:13:28,08 forty five A.M. 158 00:13:28,09 --> 00:13:28,86 Police arrested 159 00:13:28,87 --> 00:13:32,02 a forty seven year old man and two hundred block of South Church Street on 160 00:13:32,03 --> 00:13:38,88 suspicion of violating probation. When twenty eight police 161 00:13:38,89 --> 00:13:39,24 arrested 162 00:13:39,25 --> 00:13:43,68 a forty three year old man in Richardson street rustic lane on suspicion of public 163 00:13:43,69 --> 00:13:48,57 drunkenness. And got a County Sheriff's Office on Thursday ten eleven am 164 00:13:48,58 --> 00:13:50,16 a caller from thirteen thousand block 165 00:13:50,17 --> 00:13:54,67 a woman lane reported dead animals were being placed over signs at 166 00:13:54,68 --> 00:13:58,25 a Learning Center deputy contacted the caller and we did 167 00:13:58,26 --> 00:14:02,93 a story about that today. Ten thirty. I am a caller reported a little girl in 168 00:14:02,94 --> 00:14:07,06 a vehicle in Nevada City highway looked like she did not want to be in that vehicle 169 00:14:07,10 --> 00:14:10,52 the caller said the man driving the vehicle was acting strangely it's 170 00:14:10,53 --> 00:14:13,100 a girl appeared to be around three years old with long blonde hair blue pants and 171 00:14:14,30 --> 00:14:18,47 top the man was slender with about six feet tall get 172 00:14:18,48 --> 00:14:20,52 a mustache she was wearing sunglasses and 173 00:14:20,53 --> 00:14:26,21 a cap officers checked the area and no contact was made. Twelve fifty three P.M. 174 00:14:26,22 --> 00:14:29,90 a Call from business on the ten thousand block of Rough and Ready highway reported 175 00:14:30,18 --> 00:14:34,54 hearing was broken into overnight the person entered through the rooms back window 176 00:14:34,55 --> 00:14:37,15 the caller did not know if anything was missing deputies took 177 00:14:37,16 --> 00:14:41,65 a report for trespassing. Three twelve P.M. 178 00:14:41,66 --> 00:14:41,89 Call 179 00:14:41,90 --> 00:14:46,36 a report ported her in an accident on our forty nine and I would twenty officers 180 00:14:46,59 --> 00:14:47,00 reporting 181 00:14:47,01 --> 00:14:54,74 a tow truck responded. The 182 00:14:54,75 --> 00:14:56,83 way to the call to report 183 00:14:56,84 --> 00:15:00,70 a man threatened to burn his house down if he didn't pay him five thousand dollars 184 00:15:00,70 --> 00:15:02,84 . Forty eight P.M. 185 00:15:02,85 --> 00:15:04,90 On a woman reported employee out of business on 186 00:15:04,91 --> 00:15:09,17 a sixteen thousand block of Dr threatened bad things would happen were going to 187 00:15:09,18 --> 00:15:11,46 happen to her because the woman wanted 188 00:15:11,47 --> 00:15:16,21 a log entry on. Friday seven sixteen A.M. 189 00:15:16,22 --> 00:15:18,14 A Call reported into gear was stuck in 190 00:15:18,15 --> 00:15:23,28 a fence in the nineteen thousand block of last mile drive. The bad 191 00:15:23,29 --> 00:15:26,35 a City Police Department on Thursday at ten fifty A.M. 192 00:15:26,36 --> 00:15:30,61 a Woman from the five hundred block of Searle's Ave reported some was burning piece 193 00:15:30,62 --> 00:15:33,67 of paper under her business door police took 194 00:15:33,68 --> 00:16:15,16 a very short hit from the blotter. News 195 00:16:15,17 --> 00:16:19,54 out of Washington Republican John Doolittle indicated Thursday he planned to fight 196 00:16:19,58 --> 00:16:24,35 a Justice Department subpoena for eleven years of records as part of Jack bribery 197 00:16:24,36 --> 00:16:26,48 investigation set up 198 00:16:26,63 --> 00:16:31,28 a lengthy court fight over congressional independence Republican William Jefferson 199 00:16:31,29 --> 00:16:35,57 no Democrat had been locked in a similar dispute over the F.B.I. 200 00:16:35,58 --> 00:16:37,79 Raid on his Capitol Hill office last year 201 00:16:38,29 --> 00:16:42,61 a federal appeals court declared parts of that search unconstitutional by ruling 202 00:16:42,62 --> 00:16:47,13 from the Justice Department is challenging Prosecutors recently demanded documents 203 00:16:47,14 --> 00:16:48,51 from doing five staffers 204 00:16:48,52 --> 00:16:53,15 a congressman saying the subpoena see virtually every record including legislative 205 00:16:53,16 --> 00:16:56,57 record for the past eleven years to levels attorney gave 206 00:16:56,58 --> 00:17:02,07 a larger said in any one of people related to Sonny Barger said in 207 00:17:02,08 --> 00:17:06,98 a news release issued Thursday by the congressman's office these efforts raise 208 00:17:06,99 --> 00:17:12,36 serious constitutional issues to the very core of our separation of power created 209 00:17:12,37 --> 00:17:17,49 by the Founding Fathers we should protect ourselves the Constitution prohibits the 210 00:17:17,50 --> 00:17:21,52 executive branch from using its law enforcement power to interfere with legislative 211 00:17:21,52 --> 00:17:27,90 . Action and against I mean business Barger said he and do it would be vigilant to 212 00:17:27,91 --> 00:17:33,25 ensure Congress independence is vigorously protected just like Bush. Any court 213 00:17:33,26 --> 00:17:34,94 challenge would go before 214 00:17:34,95 --> 00:17:39,92 a federal judge but to document would be sealed prosecutors are investigating 215 00:17:39,96 --> 00:17:41,99 connections between Doolittle a neighbor mots 216 00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:46,07 a convicted lobbyist they've been off influence peddling investigation already has 217 00:17:46,08 --> 00:17:47,89 netted a dozen convictions including 218 00:17:47,90 --> 00:17:53,54 a guilty plea from one Congressman Bob Ney Republican from Ohio who resigned amid 219 00:17:53,55 --> 00:17:57,82 the probe the rest of the Congress would be well served to pay attention to the 220 00:17:57,83 --> 00:18:02,09 message the executive branch seems to be sending about. Whether the three branches 221 00:18:02,13 --> 00:18:08,02 are truly co-equal. Earlier this month to Congress you were called before 222 00:18:08,03 --> 00:18:14,55 a federal grand jury is part of the do little investigation. The staffers who have 223 00:18:14,56 --> 00:18:18,29 been subpoenaed have assured they are mentally witnesses not targets of the 224 00:18:18,30 --> 00:18:22,65 investigation too little said. In a Jefferson's case the U.S. 225 00:18:22,66 --> 00:18:25,77 Court of Appeals the District of Columbia Circuit held the F.B.I. 226 00:18:26,10 --> 00:18:27,05 Agents trampled on 227 00:18:27,06 --> 00:18:31,15 a congressional independence during the raid even though they took only documents 228 00:18:31,16 --> 00:18:33,63 relevant to their bribery investigation and 229 00:18:33,64 --> 00:18:37,84 a big pot of money agents also reviewed legislative documents which were. 230 00:18:39,05 --> 00:18:44,26 Unconstitutional that ruling has already caused impeded ongoing investigations 231 00:18:44,27 --> 00:18:49,26 Justice Department attorneys syndicated court documents recently some members of 232 00:18:49,27 --> 00:18:51,94 Congress interpret the rulings as prohibiting F.B.I. 233 00:18:51,95 --> 00:18:57,21 Agents from interviewing congressional staffers attorneys wrote co-operatively 234 00:18:57,22 --> 00:19:01,47 legislative aides have played key roles in prosecution of public officials in the 235 00:19:01,48 --> 00:19:06,56 Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Clue to so right away. 236 00:19:08,94 --> 00:19:14,95 Probably. And out of Washington the best basic job of Congress is pass bills that 237 00:19:15,10 --> 00:19:18,100 pay the costs of running the government after criticizing Republicans for falling 238 00:19:19,01 --> 00:19:23,59 down on the job last year Democrats are now the one stumbling the government's new 239 00:19:23,60 --> 00:19:28,53 budget year begins Monday but Congress has not completed even one of the dozen 240 00:19:28,54 --> 00:19:32,78 spending bill appropriating money for the day to day operations of the fifteen 241 00:19:32,79 --> 00:19:37,43 Cabinet departments President Bush's lobby details right after 242 00:19:37,44 --> 00:19:41,73 a veto threat after days of Democratic spending bills because they taken as 243 00:19:41,74 --> 00:19:47,68 a whole they would break his budget by twenty three billion or more. Though Bush is 244 00:19:47,69 --> 00:19:52,84 sagging in the polls so those threats have majority Democrats tied in knots Bush 245 00:19:52,85 --> 00:19:56,77 charted Saturday in his signing a bill that prevents 246 00:19:56,78 --> 00:20:01,33 a government shutdown and gives lawmakers forty eight days more more days to. The 247 00:20:01,34 --> 00:20:06,05 budget work earlier this year congressional leaders promised to show that they 248 00:20:06,06 --> 00:20:10,78 could be responsible with the people's money unfortunately they seem to have chosen 249 00:20:10,79 --> 00:20:16,06 the pass of higher spending the president said in his weekly radio address this is 250 00:20:16,07 --> 00:20:20,46 hardly the first time the Congress has fallen behind schedule last year when 251 00:20:20,47 --> 00:20:24,64 Republicans ran the Congress they gave up on the budget altogether and forced 252 00:20:24,65 --> 00:20:28,46 Democrats to finish it on Valentine's Day in February four and 253 00:20:28,47 --> 00:20:33,35 a half months later now it is Democrats after roasting Republicans for the way the 254 00:20:34,01 --> 00:20:39,59 budget work who are vulnerable vulnerable to criticism that they are now doing no 255 00:20:39,60 --> 00:20:46,38 better it's true Republicans are happy to oblige it's deja vu all over again said 256 00:20:46,39 --> 00:20:51,28 Republican Jerry Lewis Republican of California representative who 257 00:20:51,58 --> 00:20:55,52 a year ago was chairman of the House Appropriations Committee he courted the 258 00:20:55,53 --> 00:20:59,29 current chairman Republican Representative David Obey Dan 259 00:20:59,30 --> 00:21:03,58 a Democrat from Wisconsin is blasting Republicans in the past for failing to meet 260 00:21:03,59 --> 00:21:07,94 the most basic minimal expectations that the country has for it by way of doing our 261 00:21:07,95 --> 00:21:12,38 routine business like last year most Democrats appropriations feelings can be 262 00:21:12,39 --> 00:21:17,10 blamed on the Senate which has passed just four to twelve spending bills Senator 263 00:21:17,11 --> 00:21:22,59 Majority Leader Harry Reid Democrat from Nevada has devoted lots of debate time to 264 00:21:22,63 --> 00:21:26,64 Iraq immigration and defense policy bill at the expense of the nuts and bolts work 265 00:21:26,65 --> 00:21:31,03 I'm passing spending bills Lewis said the failure of the appropriations process can 266 00:21:31,04 --> 00:21:35,90 be laid squarely on the feet of the president Senate Majority Leader. The Senate's 267 00:21:35,91 --> 00:21:40,57 top Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky since spending bills are our first 268 00:21:40,58 --> 00:21:47,20 response of the last time it was so obvious. He 269 00:21:47,21 --> 00:21:51,85 added We've had plenty of votes on other things nearly thirty votes in Iraq we 270 00:21:51,86 --> 00:21:57,56 should be making room for other things Reid said Friday he hopes to complete two 271 00:21:57,57 --> 00:21:59,82 more bills this coming week before the Senate takes 272 00:21:59,83 --> 00:22:04,39 a vacation. You know like they need one he blamed Bush in G.O.P. 273 00:22:04,40 --> 00:22:08,79 Opposition non-related bills for the delay as you know there's controversy with the 274 00:22:08,80 --> 00:22:13,08 president over his threat to veto all the bills we know we should have gotten them 275 00:22:13,09 --> 00:22:17,07 sooner but we've had forty eight filibusters we've had to deal with this year we 276 00:22:17,08 --> 00:22:20,87 drive slowed things down significantly long has been 277 00:22:20,88 --> 00:22:24,14 a symbol of Bush administration and Democrats would find themselves in 278 00:22:24,15 --> 00:22:29,86 a legislative train wreck. That would not get resolved until late in the fall even 279 00:22:29,87 --> 00:22:32,28 in years when one party runs Capitol Hill in 280 00:22:32,29 --> 00:22:37,43 a White House Congress invariably needs extra time to complete its budget work but 281 00:22:37,44 --> 00:22:41,00 Democrats raised the expectation in last year's campaign that they would be doing 282 00:22:41,01 --> 00:22:47,74 a better job running Congress and Republicans have. Tickets for the panda. The 283 00:22:47,75 --> 00:22:52,93 four bills that have passed the Senate are in House Senate talks including the 284 00:22:52,94 --> 00:22:57,23 homeland security measure and veterans the White House has backed off 285 00:22:57,24 --> 00:23:01,02 a veto on the veterans' bill and Democrats are confident to take it when an 286 00:23:01,03 --> 00:23:05,15 overriding vote on the homeland security measure if it contains three billion 287 00:23:05,16 --> 00:23:07,78 dollars sought by Republicans for a fence along the U.S. 288 00:23:07,79 --> 00:23:14,24 America border to date you can start building Republicans believe they can stick 289 00:23:14,25 --> 00:23:19,07 with Bush to sustain vetoes on the remaining bills Democrats see little points to 290 00:23:19,08 --> 00:23:21,12 any bill after bill doomed to get in 291 00:23:21,13 --> 00:23:25,68 a fight in the White House relishes has absorbed much criticism from conservative 292 00:23:25,69 --> 00:23:26,98 voters for failing to veto 293 00:23:26,99 --> 00:23:31,24 a single spending bill in his first six years in office and I guess he's going to 294 00:23:31,25 --> 00:23:34,77 catch up now. Many Republicans want 295 00:23:34,85 --> 00:23:38,27 a series of vetoes that would allow the party to reclaim its reputation as 296 00:23:38,28 --> 00:23:44,70 a party of smaller government. Just as President Clinton won many of his battles 297 00:23:44,71 --> 00:23:48,23 with Republicans over the budget Bush has great leverage so long as the G.O.P. 298 00:23:48,24 --> 00:23:52,74 Lawmakers stand with him that is the biggest reason Democrats would prefer to 299 00:23:52,75 --> 00:23:57,04 negotiate the president needs to put down his veto pen and pick up the telephone 300 00:23:57,05 --> 00:24:03,48 said House Majority Leader. Stephanie. Our differences 301 00:24:04,20 --> 00:24:08,59 are relatively minor we need to work out the differences rather than engage in 302 00:24:08,60 --> 00:24:13,37 political posturing Democrats have some leverage too they are holding back action 303 00:24:13,38 --> 00:24:19,85 of Bush's one hundred eighty nine billion war request you can delay also. Delay the 304 00:24:19,86 --> 00:24:23,57 Pentagon's non-war budget bill until the White House agrees to talk on domestic 305 00:24:23,58 --> 00:24:27,97 spending both sides see the Pentagon spending bill with forty billion increase for 306 00:24:27,98 --> 00:24:33,62 the military as the engine that will power legislative in comparison to all of the 307 00:24:33,63 --> 00:24:39,66 uncompleted bills into law maybe by Christmas. Maybe Christmas two thousand and 308 00:24:39,75 --> 00:24:46,68 thirty. One way Washington very young children simply should not 309 00:24:46,69 --> 00:24:51,70 take some commonly used cold and cough medicines federal health officials say it's 310 00:24:51,71 --> 00:24:56,48 recommending to consult your physician advice to parents on the labels be drawn to 311 00:24:56,49 --> 00:25:00,19 preliminary recommendation from Food and Drug Administration safety officials would 312 00:25:00,20 --> 00:25:04,42 apply to decongestants used in children under two and 313 00:25:04,43 --> 00:25:08,43 a history means in those younger than six according to the agency's documents 314 00:25:08,44 --> 00:25:12,75 released Friday the more than three hundred fifty page documents are part of 315 00:25:12,76 --> 00:25:14,56 a broad and ongoing F.D.A. 316 00:25:14,57 --> 00:25:18,60 Examination of whether the roughly eight hundred medicines many popular and widely 317 00:25:18,61 --> 00:25:23,59 used are safe and effective in treating children's colds and cost F.D.A. 318 00:25:24,01 --> 00:25:29,88 Advise are to take up the advisors are to take up the issue during an October 319 00:25:29,89 --> 00:25:31,79 eighteenth nineteenth meeting the F.D.A. 320 00:25:31,80 --> 00:25:35,67 Has not made a final decision on any label changes action is likely pending 321 00:25:35,96 --> 00:25:41,29 a recommendation from outside experts. The review came in response to 322 00:25:41,30 --> 00:25:44,93 a recently filed petition in Baltimore city officials who charge that many over the 323 00:25:44,94 --> 00:25:50,20 counter cough and cold remedies can harm toddlers and preschoolers those officials 324 00:25:50,21 --> 00:25:54,61 joined with the American Academy of Pediatrics cite evidence is just drugs are not 325 00:25:54,62 --> 00:25:59,85 only risky but also don't work for the very young the basic question is Why should 326 00:25:59,86 --> 00:26:05,66 a product be so wrong. Mostly marketed when it's not safe or effective said Dr 327 00:26:05,67 --> 00:26:10,33 Joshua Sharfstein Baltimore's health commissioner does not make sense in the 328 00:26:10,34 --> 00:26:12,72 absence of information to say consult 329 00:26:12,73 --> 00:26:17,67 a physician because they do not have superhuman powers they cannot make 330 00:26:17,88 --> 00:26:23,84 a product safe or effective. The Consumer Health Care Products Association which 331 00:26:23,85 --> 00:26:29,68 represents makers of over the counties over the counter medicines backs the 332 00:26:29,69 --> 00:26:33,58 recommendation that the cold and cough treatments not be used in children younger 333 00:26:33,59 --> 00:26:37,84 than two years old separately for any histamines the group recommends adding 334 00:26:37,85 --> 00:26:43,55 a war unit to drug not be used to sedate young children. And F.D.A. 335 00:26:43,56 --> 00:26:48,10 Review of side effects workers filed with the Agency between one hundred sixty nine 336 00:26:48,11 --> 00:26:52,90 is the Kember two thousand and six found fifty four reports of deaths in children 337 00:26:53,11 --> 00:26:59,87 associated with decongest medicines made was side of. The 338 00:26:59,88 --> 00:27:06,86 dream and fell for in an episode during It also found sixty nine reports 339 00:27:06,87 --> 00:27:11,48 of deaths associated with ten histamine medicines containing diaper hide your main 340 00:27:11,48 --> 00:27:18,30 . Mine and chloral of Femara many. Most of the deaths 341 00:27:18,31 --> 00:27:23,34 are children younger than two so watch out thanks for watching and we'll talk to 342 00:27:23,35 --> 00:27:23,76 you tomorrow.